The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-03-31
THE DAILY NEWS
Southern HOt-HOuse vegetables.
American Garden.

The stalls of leading dealers in fruits
and vegetables in our markets. the first
class groceries and the stores of Broad
way purveyors. display a great variety of
vegetables and fruits from hot -hotIS.as
and from the South. Each season the
weld from the South appears earlier ami
IN larger quantity. which has the effect
of lowering the price of hot-hOuse pro-
ducts. For some time the vegetables
anu fruits grown in the South for this
market We're in the hands of those who
had undertaken gardening in small
patches for the sake of earning sufficient
10 live in a climate conducive To their
health. These amateurs have been sue
ceeded by professionals who have gone
into the business ON "a large scale. ami II,
better methods prevail, the stock is of
finer quality and greater variety.
HOt-house vegetables and fruits. until
within "A few seasons. came almost en-
tirely from private gardeners who sold
the surplus of what was raised for the.
family This is done in many instances
at present. Such vegetables as beans.
carrots and caulitiOwerS. raised in hot
houses, are only received in small lots
from private lighthouses. The CONNER
mercial vegetable houses are more
numerous in Rhode Island, Connecticut,
New Hampshire and Massachusetts
while there are "A few i'll Pennsylvania
and New Jersey.
The first early vegetables that reached
here this winter We're from Bermuda.
and We're what is known as second
crop potatoes and tomatoes. These are
the fall planting, and are not So good as
the first crop, which comes the latter
part of February, and of course, do not
bring SO high u price. Southern vege-
tables must be III prime condition to
meet with ready sale at paying prices.
Bermuda tomatoes have been unusually
poor this year. The seed used there is
running out, and. in many instances, has
never been first class. Bermuda onions
have also been of inferior quality for two
seasons. 1hey are grown, in the main,
by negroes, and as rule are improp-
erly packed. An effort To raise Bermuda
onions in Florida has met with success.
and in time probably these onions will
he cultivated there extensively. Florida
potatoes prove an excellent and remun-
erative crop; they reach here in March.
about the time of the first crop of Ber-
mudas, and Florida tomatoes also supply
this market until the yield of Northern
gardens in July.
Small lots of asparagus arrive here
from Florida and distant Southern local
ties, but shippers do not encourage the
raising of it for this market in places
south of Charleston. Excellent aspara-
gus, produced in quantities in Charles
ton, is sent here by April LIST. New Or
leans occasionally forwards asparagus of
good quality. also beans. cucumberS and
caulifiowers. The string bean crop is u
constant one from October until July
CaulifiowerS are seldom out of market
Those produced ON Long Island. and
those from the South, keep up the sup
ply, and the principal of a large firm
here states that he Is never without
them. Florida-grown green peas become
81 damaged in transportation that sell
dom more than one shipment out of Il
picking will reach here in good conti-
ton.
One or two lots of Havana peas have
arrived here in prime order this winter.
Egg-plant proves paying crop in Flor
ida AMI has been in market since Decem-
her. French artichOkeS it is expected
from experiments which have been
made, will soon be- raised in quantities in
Florida this will enable us To obtain
them much cheaper than when imported
from France. Southern lettuce cannot
compete with that raised in Boston hot
houses, but occasionally a fine. lot of rad
lshes reach us from as far South as
Florida
Cucumbers are one of the best paving
vegetables grown ut the South and ART.
always in demand in Northern markets.
The first received here in winter are
raised in New Orleans. The Florida
crop is very satisfactory when the Gu
cumbers are shipped immediately after
picking. kale, cabbage and spinach
grown at the South always find remu-
nerative market in New York.
Hot-house cucumbers are brought in
;ts soon as those from Out-of-door gar
dens are exhausted. They always bring
a high price until Southern cucumbers
arrive, when it declines considerably.
Hot-hOuse tomatoes are more extensive
~ grown each year. They are one of the
best vegetable forced and are never sold
for less than seventy-five cents per
pound. Asparagus from Eastern hot
houses reaches us before Christmas.
There is II steady demand for it at from
seventy-five cents to one dollar and
twenty-five cents bunch. Lettuce and
radishes are freely supplied from the
hot houses and are of excellent quality.
String beans, carrots and caulitiowers
come in sparingly. The mushroom
crop is one of the most important as
there Is steady sale for them.